Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terminate the three-cornered deadlock now existing between the various Reichstag factions. The Deputies pondered well whether they wished to lose their seats and campaign for them again. While they pondered, Foreign Minister Stresemann seized the occasion as the psychological moment to announce that he had obtained a few minor concessions from the Allies respecting the evacuation of the Rhineland. The effect was electrical and cleared the air for the Government considerably...
...shrewishness. Even though one grant him a disposition superior to chronic mud slinging, his provocation is immense. Before rattling off the presses, most novels have endured compression to standard dimensions of theme and plot. More than human patience would be required for the reviewer to pick out minor originalities from this stereotyped mass. After all, acidity is the best antidote for dullness...
...eager donning of straws and white flannels, but a wireless message from the Black Sea shore informs the New York Times that twenty-four Turks have been executed for not wearing according to Mustafa Kemal's late decree, hats of the European mode. Non-conformance is costly in Asia Minor...
...organ recital from 9 to 9.10 o'clock in Appleton Chapel this morning, Mr. C. T. Leonard will play Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C. minor...
Neither team showed any semblance of team-work during the first few minutes of the game, but after the two outfits got organized, both nets were alternately featured. Shortly after the opening, Pratt and Harding engaged in a minor feud, and both were sent off for two minutes...